CHINA Update

Hello Everyone!

Thanks for reading and supporting! I am starting to see the beginnings of my financial support coming in. I have an online account at TeachOverseas.org where I can track who is sending support as I am asking everyone to send their donations strait to Teach Overseas. This cuts out the middle man (me!) and saves money on postage and makes things just run smoother.

It is exciting to see the financial support coming in. I would also appreciate your encouragement through letters and emails. If you wish to do this, please write me at

1616 N 22nd St
Superior, WI 54880

Or email me at jerbarden@yahoo.com or, if you have a blogger account, just leave a comment underneath this post! Many of you also use facebook, which is another fantastic way to reach me.
These are the best methods, you can call me, but I keep a busy schedule and it is easier for me to take time out to read your letters. I appreciate your understanding.

Ill keep everyone posted and if this is your first time here, just read the previous two posts to get up-to-date. Thanks!
Love, Jeremy

My Trip to China

Hello Again!!

You are here to read about my trip to China! If you are interested in receiving a support letter as well, please let me know!

On June 21st I will take my flight to Beijing where I will meet someone from Teach Overseas who will take me to Peking University for my five week stay as an ESL teacher. I will be staying on the campus with the rest of the Teach Overseas volunteers and staff. We will be assisting the university students in their ESL classes and spending our time outside the classroom with them as well.

This is my first trip outside of the United States and I am very excited! In order to go to China, I need support from my church body, my family and friends! If you are interested in how to help, you can pray for me and support me financially. I would appreciate both, but understand if you cannot give during this time. I would ask that you pray that God will open the doors for others to give and pray for wisdom for me.

If you are interested in making a donation, please go to www.teachoverseas.org/contribute
where you can use paypal or credit card. Just select "contribute to teacher or staff member" and put my name in the boxes.

You can also send a check to Teach Overseas by using the address given on the same webpage listed above. Just make sure to write my name on the MEMO line of your check.

Either way you give, Teach Overseas will notify me of your contribution.

Thanks for your time and please continue to visit this blog for updates. I will even continue to update my blog while in China!

Thank you!! Love, Jeremy

A Quick Update. A Call for Prayer.

Hello!

I thought I would take time to update you on a few things! I really appreciate you taking your time to read this. I wouldn't take the time to post this if I knew you weren't going to read it.

First, and most pressing: I have a job interview at Woodland Hills for a position as a Youth Treatment Specialist! I believe I could benefit greatly from this job and I am asking you pray for wisdom and peace. Also, that when the interview happens (Wed, April 8th) I would not be anxious.

Second: I am going to China this summer (June 21st through August 1st)! I am going with Teach Overseas as a teacher of English. I will update you more on this later, but I ask also for you prayer support. Please pray again for wisdom, but also that God will work in your heart and in the hearts of all my loved ones to assist me in going on my first missions trip!

Thanks for reading!
Love,
Jeremy

Search for a peaceful study area

Dont get me wrong. I love being back at UWS. For those of you who dont know, Im back at UWS! I really like this school, but to my knowledge there is no quiet place on campus to study. This is really frustrating. This is largely due to the fact that UWS is going through a campus wide construction/remodeling.

It begins with the new student center. The construction cuts right through the center of campus. It has forced the on campus traffic to flow through every building on campus. No building is safe from this traffic save the Health and Wellness Center. This is amusing seeing as you wouldnt normally consider the Health and Wellness Center a nice place to study. However, it really is! More on this in a moment.

The other issue is the Library which is currently getting remodeled. For those like me who use the library as a safe haven from noise, this is a serious issue. I just transferred from UMD where the library is THE perfect place to study. The problems on the UWS campus are making me consider going all the way to UMD's library to study! In fact, on the occassions I have a larger load of homework, I plan on going there to study.

The library here at UWS has been temporarily moved into the student center. This temp library has white tiled floors and is brighter than a taning. The floors reflect the light even more contributing to the tanning bed affect. I would not study in an uncomfortable place such as that.

Then there are the few computer labs on campus. People DO NOT respect the computer labs. People talk, answer their phones, and laugh out loud viewing youtube. It is ridiculous.

My search is not for a quiet comp lab, however. It is for a comfortable chair or table upon which to study and/or do homework. I have yet to find that place on this campus.

There is a lounge, but this lounge has traffic running through it and sometimes even more disrespectful people. Well, I should be studying right now, but I simply cannot. The noise is too much.

So, I have decided the best place to study is the Health and Wellness Center. Yes, the HWC is loud, but its noise volume is perfect: a perfect hum of voices and music over the PA. I found a nice lounge above the track with comfortable tables and chairs. It is here you will find me from now on.

-Jere

A little bit about whats going on with me

Ive got a few hours to spare before class. Break was a blast and now Im back in school, because, like Ive always said, schoos fo foos. And that is me: a fool. Being back in school feels good though, and Im glad to be back and involved once more.
For you guys who dont know what Im doing, I am setting up a personally designed major. It is quite the process. I am developing something along the lines of Chemical Dependency Counseling. In the end it will probably have a different name (I can name it whatever I want to) but it will have to do with counseling. Therefore, I will have to end up going to grad school, but lets not think that far ahead right now.
Wednesdays are my long days. I have school from 9am to noon. Then I stay on campus because my roommates bring me here and its too cold to walk the ten blocks back home. I go back to class at 5pm to 7 30pm and from there I go to Intervarsity.
This semester will be a bit challenging, so please pray that everything will work out as far as continuing to piece together my major. Thanks for readin!

Nintendo 64: The Final List

Thanks to those who helped me recall this list:

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (How could I forget!?)
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (Again..how could I forget!)
Perfect Dark
Super Smash Bros
Bomberman 64 (new!)
Goldeneye
Diddy Kong Racing
Geomen Mystical Ninja (new!)
Super Mario 64
Mario Kart 64Jet Force Gemini
Blast Corps
Star Fox 64
Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire
Star Wars: Roque Squadron
Fifa 99 (or was it 98?)

If there are any more, please refresh my memory!

Nintendo 64

Remember the Nintendo 64? Help me recall which games I owned! Also, tell me which ones you owned (or still do!), and list seperately the ones I should have owned because they were ESSENTIAL.

Here were the ones I can think of off the top of my head (I'll add the rest later):

Super Mario 64
Mario Kart 64
Jet Force Gemini
Blast Corps
Star Fox 64
Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire
Star Wars: Roque Squadron

Just facebook me or email me at jerbarden@yahoo.com. Thanks!